Quotes

When it comes to freedom, we are but prisoners of our own desires.

Law is merely the expression of the will of the strongest for the time being, and therefore laws have no fixity, but shift from generation to generation.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

If you share the crime of your friend, you make it your own.

Fast closed with double grills
And triple gates – the cell
To wicked souls is hell;
But to a mind that's innocent
'Tis only iron, wood and stone.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

The only difference between me and my fellow actors is that I've spent more time in jail.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

There is a point at which even justice does injury.

Care should be taken that the punishment does not exceed the guilt; and also that some men do not suffer for offenses for which others are not even indicted.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because it is so satisfying to our sadistic impulses.

We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

Kill a man, and you are an assassin. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone, and you are a God.

We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.

Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X came out of prison stronger.